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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (41)	12/4/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: PJ Strifas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 68

Hello Frank, Yes, you seem to have taken much time to think about many aspects of this dilemma. For me, I've just begun to look deeper into this space. From my perspective, I look at how some Directory products work within the "Corporate Network" - some scalable solutions like Novell's NDS for example - and how this could possibly translate into the larger "web-at-large" to solve problems of authentication, access and policy-based QoS. Of course, NDS is a proprietary solution that needs to open it's source for additional examination by other vendors. But it is the most mature Directory product currently available which can scale to one billion objects if necessary. It already has a high adoption rate among Fortune 500 companies, a provable ROI and some decent applications which are based on the Directory. Perhaps LDAP will allow us to develop interoperatable metadirectory solutions which don't require a "universal" directory adoption between ISPs, ASPs and end-users. This way native datastores can synchronize information as well as exchange information allowing us to access many systems transparently. I'm not sure which layers this works at - I haven't studied this topic deeply enough yet (I'd be happy to hear opinions). If we can build Directory processes into routers, switches and other edge devices - we can replicate and synchronize data faster and easier. I think that by segregating services into "network appliances" we'd see specialized directory servers/routers which may enhance the speed in which data is replicated and synchronized. Also, what do you think about object routing? Wouldn't this increase throughput and lessen complexity from current routers today? Peter J Strifas